Tweet from PowerShell

I have been playing with Twitter recently and thought it might be neat to see if I could post a ‘tweet’ from PowerShell. There is a great Google Group that discusses their API. The APIs are all REST based and really easy to use – the only complexity is that you need HTTP Basic Authentication to do anything ‘real’.

One of the more simple API calls is to get the public timeline. No authentication is required for this so you can simply the url into your browser and get back the data (xml format, but json and other formats are available also). Try this :